Re: NetBSD as HVM guest

[Goran <netbsd-list%arcor.de@localhost>]

Sorry, I know there is a 3.1 Xen-able dom0 kernel. But what I need is a
3.3 Xen-able dom0 i386 kernel.


Am Montag, den 13.07.2009, 15:08 +0200 schrieb Goran:
> Are there any binary dom0 kernel for i386 (as my machine for
> experimental use is a i386)? Or do I have to get an amd64 machine?
> 
> 
> Am Montag, den 13.07.2009, 13:44 +0200 schrieb Christoph Egger:
> > On Monday 13 July 2009 12:01:49 Goran wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, den 10.07.2009, 18:44 +0200 schrieb Christoph Egger:
> > > > Goran wrote:
> > > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > For HVM guests, there's a per-guest qemu output file in
> > > > /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-<guestname>.log
> > > >
> > > > What is it's output ?
> > > >
> > > > Christoph
> > >
> > > The name/position of the file is "/var/log/xen/qemu-dm.226.log". At this
> > > position I've found dozens of such files without one of
> > > "/var/log/xen/qemu-dm-<guestname>.log". I've identified the file by
> > > date/time.
> > 
> > Ok, that tells me you are using Xen 3.1. The file format has been changed
> > to qemu-dm-<guestname>.log in newer Xen versions.
> > 
> > Xen 3.1 is too old for NetBSD to run as HVM guest.
> > Upgrade to Xen 3.3.
> > 
> > It has a buggy shadow paging implementation which doesn't handle
> > unaligned and cross-page accesses properly. This has been fixed
> > in Xen 3.3.
> > 
> > Christoph
>